Plant Scientist wins Ecological Society of America Award

Assoc Prof Timothy Brodribb has been awarded the 2012 W.S. Cooper Award by the Ecological Society of America.

Assoc Prof Timothy Brodribb has been awarded the 2012 W.S. Cooper Award by the Ecological Society of America. This award is given annually to honor an outstanding contribution to the fields of geobotany and/or physiographics ecology.

The award was given following publication of an outstanding paper in the Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden in 2010 by C. Kevin Boyces, Jung-Eun Lee, Taylor S. Field, Tim J Brodribb, and Maciej A. Zwieniecki titled "Angiosperms helped put the rain in the rainforests: The impact of plant physiological evolution on tropical biodiversity?"